F+B → Resources

“Community Over Competition”

A curated collection of free resources across the internet for fellow creatives.

All links feature items that are free for commercial use, public domain or open source.

All books can be purchased from their respective authors, publishers or marketplaces.

Use at your own discretion.   


001 → Links

Fonts
Fontesk
Google Fonts
Fonts Market
Open Foundry
Fontshare
Velvetyne
OPTI Fonts Archive
Use & Modify
Uncut
Design Research
Indestructible Type
Tunera Type Foundry
Awwwards
Collletttivo
ANRT
Befonts
Free Faces Gallery
SUVA Type Foundry
The League Of Moveable Type
DaFont
Font Squirrel
Assets
Internet Archive
British Library
Texture Labs
The Noun Project
Flickr Commons

Collage Images
Rawpixel
Unsplash
Pixabay
Public Work
Texture Fabrik
Pexels
Texture Ninja
Museo
Ergs Art Gallery
Cooper Hewitt
All Free Pictures
Open Access
Clip Art ETC
Free Classic Images
Openverse
Design Tools
Playbook
Notion
Upscayl
BG-Bye
What The Font
Mood.site
Fonts In Use
Toools.Design
Unblast
Womp 3D Modeling
Coolors
Flyerwrk
Huemint
Beadifier
Transparent Patterns
Text Studio
Fffuel.co
Toptal Patterns
Colorspace
Mr. Mockup
Are.na



002 → Book Recommendations


What Design Can’t Do: Essays On Design & Disillusion
Silvio Lorusso  /  2024

• Caps Lock: How Capitalism Took Hold Of Graphic Design, & How To Escape From It
Ruben Pater  /  2021

Seeing <—> Making | Room for Thought
Susan Buck-Morss, Kevin McCaughey, Adam Michaels  /  2024

Graphic Design
Milton Glaser  /  1983

The Essential Type Directory: A Source Book Of Over 1,800 Typefaces & Their Histories
Peter Dawson  /  2019

Face The Music: Twenty Years Of Album Art
Don & Ryan Clark (Invisible Creature)  /  2020

Tricker’s Cabin: The Oral & Visual History Of Online Ceramics
Elijah Funk & Alix Ross  /  2024

Logo Modernism
Jens Muller & Julius Wiedemann  /  2015

The Push Pin Style
Various Contributors (Push Pin Studios)  /  1970

The Vignelli Canon
Massimo Vignelli  /  2015

Soviet Logos: Lost Marks Of The Utopia
Rokas Sutkaitis  /  2019

How To See: Visual Adventures In A World God Never Made
George Nelson  /  1977

DIY Album Art: Paper Bags & Office Supplies
J. Namdev Hardisty  /  2009

Fucked Up + Photocopied: Instant Art Of The Punk Rock Movement
Bryan Ray Turcotte & Christopher Miller  /  2002

Offline Matters: The Less Digital Guide To Creative Work
Jess Henderson  /  2020

The Politics Of Design: A (Not So) Global Design Manual for Visual Communication
Ruben Pater  /  2016

Ways Of Seeing
John Berger  /  1972

Ruined By Design: How Designers Destroyed The World, & What We Can Do To Fix It
Mike Monteiro  /  2024

Who Can Afford To Be Critical?
An Inquiry Into What We Can’t Do Alone (As Designers), & Into What We Might Be Able To Do Together (As People).

Afonso Matos & Various Contributors  /  2023


Atlas Of Brutalist Architecture
Phaidon Editors  /  2020

Be Here Now
Ram Dass  /  1971